{"product_id":"black-sabbath-paranoid","title":"Black Sabbath – Paranoid (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Sabbath's \u003c\/strong\u003esecond album, 1970's\u003cstrong\u003e Paranoid,\u003c\/strong\u003e was not only the band's most popular record it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. \u003cstrong\u003eParanoid\u003c\/strong\u003e refined \u003cstrong\u003eBlack Sabbath's\u003c\/strong\u003e signature sound - crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock - and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural\/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet \u003cstrong\u003eSabbath\u003c\/strong\u003e make it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect - the technical simplicity of \u003cstrong\u003eOzzy Osbourne's\u003c\/strong\u003e vocals and \u003cstrong\u003eTony Iommi's\u003c\/strong\u003e lead guitar vocabulary, the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness, the lack of subtlety, and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in their path, including their own limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonolithic and primally powerful, \u003cstrong\u003eParanoid\u003c\/strong\u003e defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history.\u003cem\u003e (AMG)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVinyl, LP, Reissue, Gatefold, 180 Gram\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA1 War Pigs \u003cbr\u003eA2 Paranoid \u003cbr\u003eA3 Planet Caravan \u003cbr\u003eA4 Iron Man \u003cbr\u003eB1 Electric Funeral \u003cbr\u003eB2 Hand Of Doom \u003cbr\u003eB3 Rat Salad \u003cbr\u003eB4 Fairies Wear Boots\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rmleuQP5owA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Sabbath","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":58596784734543,"sku":"BMGRM054LP","price":6.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/2164\/3343\/files\/bs.jpg?v=1787984190","url":"https:\/\/www.vinylforger.com\/products\/black-sabbath-paranoid","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}